Ontario native Owen Pallett – sometime Arcade Fire member and previous collaborator with The Hidden Cameras and Jim Guthrie – is rather preoccupied with his own Final Fantasy project nowadays. DiS catches up with him before a recent London show to talk television adverts, Belle and Sebastian and the concept of irony...»

I'm wondering whether making the trip out has been worth it at all - I could have stayed in, with a mug of hot chocolate and My Name Is Earl on DVD, and not spent time trying to work out which members of what bands to praise for being in time. All my fears are put aside, however, when The Victorian English Gentlemens Club come onstage looking like they mean business...»